Come to Highbury Magistrates' Court on 9 July (Highbury Corner, London N7)! Activists Ewa Jasiewicz, recently returned from 8 months solidarity work in Iraq, and community film-maker Pennie Quinton have been charged with "Aggravated Trespass" whilst protesting inside and against the Iraq Procurement Conference in London on 27 April.
The two, who unravelled banners and addressed the delgates as collaborators and complicit in the daily massacres in Iraq, will be arguing that the meeting was actually an unlawful event as it was facilitating acts of pillage - illegal under the Hague Regulations of 1907 which Britain and the US are both signatories to.
In a leaked memo dated in March 2003, UK Attorney General Lord Peter advised Prime Minister Blair that in his view, "the imposition of major structural economic reforms would not be authorised under international law".
As a result, Pennie and Ewa will be calling the Attorney General to the stand to give evidence.
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